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Car accident traps woman in vehicle

Emergency responders rescued a woman trapped in a wrecked SUV on Three Lakes Loop Road last Sunday evening

Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Dave Berg said they received the dispatch call around 5 p.m. August 11. He said they found the vehicle in a steep embankment, the front passenger side door crumpled against a tree, about three miles down the south end of the road. Two other passengers, both males, were able to exit the vehicle.

“We were able to block the car using struts to stabilize it and anchored the vehicle to our truck on the road and then we started to cut ap...